Those Who Forget The Past #185 By Hank Silverberg My blog is a bit late this week, and I apologize for that. After 185 weeks of commentary and thoughts, I missed a deadline. But maybe that's a good thing. I have been a bit angry about an experience I had in a local antique store last week, and I needed a bit of time to calm down before writing about it. (One of my display cases) My hobby is collecting political campaign items like buttons, pins, posters and such. I have done it since high school and have a modest collection of seven display cases in my home office. Many of them I collected from various campaigns or events I covered as a reporter. Some of them were gifts from friends and family, and one I actually got off the late Congressman Mo Udall's lapel. He gave it to me on a campaign stop in Connecticut back in 1976 when he had a brief run for the presidency. I also purchased a large number of these items, and many of them were boug